Kane-Renassance Timeline

Bubonic Plague begins

Feb 28, 1347

Renassance begins

Jan 1, 1350

Kane- Renassance Timeline

Period: Jan 1, 1350 to Dec 1, 1600

Rise of Rome

Period: 1400 to 1450

Brunelleschi creates Linear Perspective

Mar 31, 1413

The Papacy Returns To Rome

Jan 16, 1420

The Papacy, having been located in Avignon since 1305, returns to Rome, bringing with it the prestige and wealth necessary to rebuild the city.

Cosimo De Medici Takes Over His Father's Business

Mar 22, 1429

Cosimo de Medici becomes head of the bank after his father dies, using his economic power to consolidate political power. Within five years he runs the city without question.

Joan of Arc and the Siege of Orleans

Sep 22, 1429

The Medici family becomes the head of the city-state of Florence.

Jun 30, 1434

Over 200 years they ruled it

: Pope Nicholas V Ascends To The Throne

May 1, 1447

Pope Nicholas V takes the first steps toward turning Rome into a Renaissance city, undertaking many construction projects and strongly encouraging the arts.

Leonardo da Vinci and the Gutenberg Bible

Period: 1451 to 1475

The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Constantinople, signaling an end to the Byzantine Empire.

May 29, 1453

Constantinople Falls

Jul 29, 1453

The center of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople falls to the Ottoman Turks, provoking an exodus of Greek people and works of art and literature into the Italian city-states.

Henry VII becomes king of England beginning the reign of the House of Tudor.

Jan 28, 1457

Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press

Feb 3, 1468

Age of Exploration

Apr 26, 1476

The period is characterized as a time when Europeans began exploring the world by sea in search of new trading routes, wealth, and knowledge.

Spanish Inquisition Begins

Sep 12, 1478

The Spanish Inquisition was used for both political and religious reasons. Following the Crusades and the Reconquest of Spain by the Christian Spaniards the leaders of Spain needed a way to unify the country into a strong nation.

Sandro Botticelli paints Birth of Venus

Jun 30, 1486

Painting Sandro Botticelli. It depicts the goddess Venus, having emerged from the sea as a fully grown woman, arriving at the sea-shore (which is related to the Venus Anadyomene motif). The painting is held in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

Explorer Christopher Columbus discovers the Americas.

Aug 3, 1492

Ludovico Sforza Permits The French Invasion Of Italy

Nov 28, 1494

In an attempt to weaken his enemy, the King of Naples, Ludovico invites the French to invade Italy, granting them free passage through Milan. Though this invasion fails, the French return in 1499, turning on Ludovico and taking Milan, and opening an era of foreign competition for Italian land.

da Vinci paints The Last Supper

Jan 1, 1495

1498 - Vasco da Gama arrives in India after sailing around the southern tip of Africa from Portugal.

May 20, 1498

Leonardo da Vinci paints the Last Supper.

Dec 13, 1498

Michelangelo begins his work on the sculpture David.

Aug 16, 1501

Leonadro Divinci starts Mona Lisa painting

Jul 23, 1503

Michelangelo Finishes paining David

Nov 23, 1504

Peter Henlien Creates the Watch

Apr 17, 1505

Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa.

Apr 23, 1506

Raphael completes "The School of Athens"

Mar 14, 1511

Michelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel

1512

Thomas More -Utopia

1512

The book, written in Latin, is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. A 'Utopia"' refers to a perfect society or world. (so no war, poverty etc. So this book is about a perfect place more or less.

Martin Luther posts his 95 theses on the door of the Church of Wittenberg. This signals the start of the Reformation.

Oct 31, 1512

Matrin Luther creates 95 theses

Jul 18, 1517

Ferdinand Magellan begins his voyage around the world.

Sep 6, 1519

Start of the European Wars of religion

Jan 1, 1524

The religious wars were cause by the Protestant Reformation in western and northern Europe. The wars were fought between Catholics and Protestants.

Henry VIII separates the Church of England from the Catholic Church of Rome.

Jun 13, 1534

Henry VIII did it so he can divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn.

King Henry VIII dies

Jan 28, 1547

The First Peace of Augsburg

Sep 25, 1555

Spain Declares Bankrupcy for first time

Jun 12, 1557

Spanish armada is defeated by the english Navy

Jul 29, 1558

Considered an accident

Elizabeth becomes Queen of England

Nov 14, 1558

First Modern Atlas is Published

May 22, 1570

Saint Bartholomew's Massacre

1572

The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations, followed by a wave of Roman Catholic mob violence, both directed against the Huguenots, during the French Wars of Religion. Traditionally believed to have been instigated by Catherine de' Medici. The Massacre is unknown to exactly how many deaths it caused, but the guess is anywhere between 5,000 and 30,000

Expulsion of Jusuits

Sep 12, 1587

Edict of Nantes

Jan 5, 1589

Issued by Henry IV of France, granted the Calvinist Protestants of France (also known as Huguenots) substantial rights in a nation still considered essentially Catholic. In the Edict, Henry aimed primarily to promote civil unity.The Edict separated civil from religious unity, treated some Protestants for the first time as more than mere schismatics and heretics, and opened a path for secularism and tolerance.

Edict of Nantes

1598

Henry IV of France grants religious liberty and full civil rights to the Protestant Huguenots. It is resented by the Catholics and is later annulled.

William Shakespeare builds the Globe theatre. He will write many of his great plays over the next few years including Hamlet and Macbeth.

Jan 1, 1599